Originally showed up on E! Online

London bridge was dropping, and Taylor Swift really felt every min.

“The Tortured Poets Department” is right here and, similar to followers prepared for, component of the brand-new cd is devoted to Swift’s split from Joe Alwyn in springtime 2023. In truth, the 34-year-old has actually penciled a heartbreaking homage to completion of their 6 years with each other in “So Long, London,” an emotional sequel to Taylor’s 2019 Lover track “London Boy.”

In enhancement to the tunes’ titles, Swift has actually attracted a clear parallel in between both tracks by putting each as the 5th song on their corresponding cds. But whereas “London Boy” informs the uplifting tale of a blossoming love — and where Midnights’ “You’re Losing Me” covers the start of completion — “So Long, London” brings the trip home by narrating the partnership’s excruciating death.

In the relocating track, not just does Swift bid farewell to England’s funding — Alwyn’s home town and where both invested much time throughout their 6 years with each other — yet she likewise explains attempting to maintain the partnership with each other also as she can see it splitting up.

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“I saw in my mind fairy lights through the mist / I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift,” she sings in the very first carolers, suggesting to still seeing hope in their partnership regardless of the expanding range. “Pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away / My spine split from carrying us up the hill.”

But as her “weary bones caught the chill,” she started to surrender her initiatives: “I stopped trying to make him laugh, stopped trying to drill the safe.”

And whereas “London Boy” explains a wondrous tour with London, a type of obtaining-to-recognize the city, “So Long, London” rather reveals Swift’s sensations of expanding seclusion — specifically in a city that is not her very own.

“I didn’t opt in to be your odd man out,” she sings. “I founded the club she’s heard great things about / I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the Heath.”

The Grammy champion takes place to chronicle the partnership’s “death,” of a type, in a resemble of “You’re Losing Me.”

Where she sings “I can’t find a pulse / My heart won’t start anymore” on “Midnights,” currently she sings, “I stoppеd CPR, after all, it’s no use / The spirit was gonе, we would never come to.”

The vocalist likewise shows up to allude to the moment she invested with Alwyn — 6 years from when she was 27 to 33 — throughout the song.

“And I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free,” she sings in knowledgeable 2, later on including the bridge, “You swore that you loved me but where were the clues? / I died on the altar waiting for the proof.”

And while she sang in “You’re Losing Me” that her face had actually gone grey, she once again suggests to shade on TTPD with, “You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days / And I’m just getting color back into my face.”

But regardless of her initiatives to “go down with the ship” — or as she places it, “My white-knuckle dying grip holding tight to your quiet resentment”—”So Long, London” comes to a close with the recognition that both weren’t appropriate for every various other.

“So long, London / Had a good run,” she sings, “A moment of warm sun / But I’m not the one.”

And though she explains completion of the partnership with a remarkable, “Two graves, one gun,” Swift — that has actually considering that gone on with sweetheart Travis Kelce — likewise assures, “You’ll find someone.”

The pair was seen at the songs event in Indio, California, dance and kissing as they sustained Ice Spice in addition to Jack Antonoff’s band, Bleachers.